Stubby Bored Man?/Hermione can be wrong!

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 115100


 
> Ginger, bouncing Hermione-like responds:
> 
> Oh, Oh, I know!  Pick me! 
> OoP p. 193, US edition.  "...and an article on ancient runes, which 
> at least explained why Luna had been reading the Quibbler upside 
> down.  According to the magazine, if you turn the runes on their 
> heads they revealed a spell to make your enemy's ears turn into 
> kumquats."
> 
> Not that the ability to read upside-down isn't useful.  I find it 
> helps in Scrabble.  So does knowing how to spell kumquat.  Must 
file 
> that.

Finwitch:

Hermione thinks that explains it, but...
Quibbler isn't written in ancient runes. However, the Ancient Runes 
within the article (or in the margin of the Quibbler) may well have 
been the wordings of such a spell, which Hermione didn't bother to 
find out. BTW, did you know that certain numbers in a calculator can 
form words if you turn the calculator upside down, as they look like 
letters that way? You could try 07734 to test it...

And about turning ones ears into Kumquats: Neville did something to 
his ears once - moved onto a cactus, as I recall, during 
Transfiguration class? Maybe a kumquat is a being that looks like an 
ear, can move instantly and loves cactuses?
(also, such spell *does* exist. Neville's done it by accident on 
himself)

Neville was with Luna as Harry&co. arrived. Did he tell Luna about 
that accident, if Luna mentioned about the article and Luna wanted to 
learn the spell so she could help Neville to master that (to be used 
on some enemy of theirs, Draco maybe)... (BTW, it'd be funny if 
Voldemort lost his ears like that, on Neville's spell!)

Finwitch